Fjordscene Poetry

This was Gustaf Munch-Petersen’s fourth and final poetry collection. The original was published in 1937 under the Danish title: “nitten digte” which simply means “nineteen poems”. ‘Nineteen Poems’ was the last collection Gustaf Munch-Petersen wrote before he left home to […]

Known as ‘the strangest poetry collection in Danish literature’, this is the climax of Munch-Petersen’s surrealism. This is where the poet took his experimentation to the limits, and was discarded by the critics in the process. Where content is concerned, […]

This collections has come to be the most famous (or infamous) of Munch-Petersen’s production. The young man of the first collection (‘naked human’) has found his mission in life: To free humanity and lead them to ‘the lowest country’, in […]

This was Gustaf Munch-Petersen’s first poetry collection, published in 1932 under the Danish title “nøgne menneske”. Just twenty years old at the time it was published, Munch-Petersen had even written some of these poems while still attending high school. The […]

‘The Land Which Is Not’ was a work in progress at the time of Södergran’s death and was published posthumously in 1925 – therefore it is shorter and more fragmented than the other collections. Some of the poems in this […]

This is Södergran’s fourth poetry collection, originally published in 1920. I translated Södergran from Swedish to English back in 2012. I did it as a personal tribute, since her poetry has been a great source of inspiration for me, both […]

Most of the poems in the collection were written within a year – between Summer 1918 and Spring 1919. A few of them were intended to be published with her previous collection ‘The September Lyre’, but were refused inclusion there. […]

This is Södergran’s second poetry collection, published in 1918. The main topic of this collection was Södergran’s self-perception, coming to term with her illness as well as herself as a literary figure. And contrary to her first collection, this one […]

This was Södergran’s literary debut. Published just in time for Christmas 1916 (on the condition that the publisher couldn’t guarantee her any payment) the primary topic is the change in the perception of women that was characteristic of the time. […]